Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature by Tim DeJong Paperback Book

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Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature contends that much of modernist writing and thought reveals a deeply held confidence about the future, one premised on the social power of art itself.

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"Hope" and "modernism" are two words that are not commonly linked. Moving from much-discussed negative affects to positive forms of feeling, Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature argues that they should be. This book contends that much of modernist writing and thought reveals a deeply held confidence about the future, one premised on the social power of art itself. In chapters ranging across a diverse array of canonical writers – Henry James, D.W. Griffith, H.D., Melvin Tolson, and Samuel Beckett – this text locates in their works an optimism linked by a common faith in the necessity of artistic practice for cultural survival. In this way, the famously self-attentive nature of modernism becomes a means, for its central thinkers and artists, of reflecting on what DeJong calls aesthetic utility: the unpredictable, ungovernable capacity of the work of art to shape the future even while envisioning it.

Author Biography

Tim DeJong received his Ph.D. in English at Western University and is currently employed as a Lecturer in the English Department at Baylor University. His academic essays have been published in Modernist Cultures, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and English Studies in Canada. His poetry appears in Rattle, Roanoke Review, Booth, Kindred, Nomadic Journal, Common Ground Review, and other journals. He lives with his wife and three children in Woodway, Texas.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Contexts of Modernist HopeChapter One: The Image in the Mirror: Aesthetic Utility in Late JamesChapter Two: Screened Anxieties: Hope and Fear in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a NationChapter Three: Unpredictable Texts: H.D.'s Grammar of CreationChapter Four: Recovering Democracy: Unfashionable Hope in Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of LiberiaChapter Five: Refusing Silence: Art as Deferment in Waiting for Godot and EndgameCoda: Legacies of Modernist Hope: Poetic Unknowing and the Call to Wonder

Details ISBN1032175877 Pages 208 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 1032175877 ISBN-13 9781032175874 Publication Date 2021-09-30 UK Release Date 2021-09-30 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-09-30 NZ Release Date 2021-09-30 Series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Author Tim DeJong Alternative 9780367861278 DEWEY 809.9112 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Imprint Routledge We've got this

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